Claremont and Los Angeles, California; 14 – 17 November 2024. Submission Deadline: 4 December 2023. The Seventeenth Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, and hosted by Claremont McKenna College and the University of Southern California, invites proposals for papers, panels, workshops, and seminars. This conference will focus…

The latest issue of JPR features Ellen Pilsworth’s discussion of the ethics of the bystander perspective with Sebastian Haffner’s memoir Defying Hitler (2002) as case study, and a pioneering interdisciplinary contribution based on a collaboration between literary scholar Juliane Prade-Weiss, historian Vladimir Petrovic, and Bible scholar Dominik Markl that critically explores the ways in which the trope of tragedy…

Perpetrator Studies Network Conference 2024. Organizing Committee: Dr. Margaux Coquet, University of Luxembourg Dr. Ellen Van Damme, Université libre de Bruxelles Prof. Damien Scalia, Université libre de Bruxelles June 26-28, 2024, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium Deadline for Abstracts: December 1, 2023. The field of perpetrator studies has traditionally focused on the criminal behavior, the…

International Conference, University of Central Florida, 8-9 April 2024 Deadline for abstracts: August 1, 2023 Location: Florida, United States Subject Fields: European History / Studies, German History / Studies, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Human Rights, Law and Legal History Holocaust Perpetrators and the Law Over decades, the study of perpetrators of the Holocaust evolved…

On March 23, 2023, we discussed Hikmet Karčić’s monograph Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Torture, Humiliate, Kill is a thorough and definitive resource for understanding the function and operation of camps during the Bosnian genocide. The discussants were Jessie Barton Hronešová (University of North Carolina, Chapel…

On 9 February we launched The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes (Oxford UP, 2022), edited by Barbora Holá, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Maartje Weerdesteijn. The handbook brings together research from across the social sciences and humanities to chart and further develop the evolving field of atrocity crimes studies. The launch included presentations by the editors…

Watch the excellent discussion of Alexander L. Hinton’s book Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell UP, 2022)! Anthropological Witness tells the story of Hinton’s encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton’s attempt to navigate the promises and perils of expert testimony. The respondents were Richard Wilson and Sabah…

Watch the illuminating discussion of Iva Vukušić’s Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia! On 15 December 2022 we launched Iva Vukušić’s Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence (Routledge, 2022). The book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and functions of the Serbian paramilitary units during…

New Series at CEU Press! This new series aims to publish work contributing to the burgeoning field of Perpetrator Studies, but with a focus specifically on the East, Central and Southeast Europe region. Series Editors: Dr Iva Vukušić, Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands Dr Weronika Grzebalska, Assistant Professor in Sociology, Institute of…

We are happy to announce the publication of the latest special issue of the Journal of Perpetrator Research! The JPR special issue “Perpetrators in Comics,” guest edited by Laurike in ‘t Veld, brings together contributions that engage with portrayals of the figure of the perpetrator and the theme of perpetration in comics across different historical and…